Jean Reynier

Jean Louis Ebenzer Reynier (14 January 1771-27 February 1814) was a general of the French Empire during the French Revolutionary Wars, Franco-Ottoman War, and Napoleonic Wars.

Biography
Reynier joined the French army as a gunner in 1792 and fought in the Battle of Jemappes that year, and was made a General of Brigade within only three years of fighting in the French Revolutionary Wars. During the Egypt Campaign he assisted in the capture of Arish and the siege of Acre, as well as the 1801 defense of Egypt from invasion by Great Britain.

During the War of the Third Coalition in 1805 he fought in northern Italy and in the 1809 Battle of Wagram, he defeated an Austrian flanking attack. Soon after, Reynier was dispatched to Spain during the Peninsular War, where he was defeated at the Battle of Bussaco and Battle of Sabugal during Andre Massena's campaigns in Portugal. In 1812 he assisted in the Russian Campaign.

In the 1813 War of the Sixth Coalition, Reynier was captured at the Battle of Leipzig with 15,000 other French troops after the French blew up the bridges over the Elster River and abandoned some of their own men. Reynier was captured but later exchanged, but Reynier died in France shortly after at the age of 43.